Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play

Giddings, Seth

Abstract

This video essay is a microethological study of the transduction of a virtual world (the PC game Age of Mythologies) into the actual world play of children with toys and water. The video is constructed from an audio recording and a sequence of still photographs of the play event. It traces the shaping of actual play by simulated worlds and their conventions, fictions and virtual physics.

Citation

Giddings, S. (2011). Mini-games, monsters and Mr Happy: A video essay on virtual and actual play

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Sep 22, 2011
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2011
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 21, 2016
• Journal: AudioVisual Thinking: A Journal of Academic Videos
• Print ISSN: 1904-8939
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 3
• Keywords: virtual play, play
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/959038
• Publisher URL: http://www.audiovisualthinking.org/videos/mrhappy/